Word: brought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...beginning of the year 1900 has suggested a comparison of the present Harvard with the Harvard of one hundred years ago. This comparison has brought to light a number of interesting facts especially with regard to student life...
...important question of the taxation of college property, recently brought to the notice of the courts in the case of the President and Fellows of Harvard College vs. the assessors of the city of Cambridge, in a suit to recover taxes assessed upon buildings used by officers and students of the College, was decided yesterday by the Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts in favor of the plaintiff. The buildings included the house of President Eliot, the old Foxcroft Club house and the houses of several professors. The statement by the court with regard to the case...
Professor de Sumichrast says: "The war, in my opinion, was deliberately brought about by the Transvaal government which, ever since the retrocession, entered upon a policy having for its object the ultimate exclusion of the British from the whole of South Africa. The interview between Reitz and Schreiner, the brother of the present premier of Cape Colony, at the time of the establishing of the Afrikander Bund, proves that war with England was then contemplated and being prepared for. The recent statement, publicly made, by Dr. Levds, the Hollander agent of the Transvaal, that large quantities of ammunition had been...